More recently, Tricaud was again the defense attorney in a high-profile legal case in France as the lawyer for rapper Hamé of French rap group La Rumeur, who was accused of libeling the police.
La Rumeur has involved itself in political activism in the suburbs of France, calling for attention to be paid to the often-ignored Paris massacre of 1961, as well as to police abuse, including "accidental" killings of young French people.
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, they have been targeted in a lawsuit by Nicolas Sarkozy, who was the French Minister of the Interior (in which they are represented by Dominique Tricaud), related to an article written by Hamé.